Podcast Episodes

#409 - Pride Wars, Dumb Tupac, and POC Jim

* Kmele is moving to a place where everything is free

* ChatGPT is a fabulist

* Moynihan’s new Orwell piece

* Wikipedia v. AI chatbots

* The assassina…

3 years, 4 months ago

Members Only #168 - Trans Pickleball, Debating Thoreau, and Eric Clapton v. Huey Newton

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

* Stan Jonathan vs. Pierce Bouchard

* The Lia Thomas of Pickleball

* Ow…

3 years, 4 months ago

#408 - It's For Nobody (w/ Ethan Strauss)

* Tina, RIP. Bill Lee, RIP.

* Zone of Interest

* DeSantis announces

* Tim Scott announced too, btw

* An increasingly crowded and unimpressive field

* Ou…

3 years, 4 months ago

Members Only #165 - In Memoriam

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* RIP Martin Amis (and Andy Rourke and Jeremy Clarke)

* “Pussies are b…

3 years, 4 months ago

#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)

* “Zero-to-insane in the first three minutes”

* The terrible 2024 election

* The right’s bizarre infatuation with RFK Jr.

* The immigration crisis in N…

3 years, 4 months ago

#406 - Killing Kaitlin Kollins

* Charging the Islip Strangler

* Moynihan’s weird bias

* A bad WSJ podcast

* The Trump townhall

* Rating Kaitlan Collins

* Journalists who hate journalis…

3 years, 4 months ago

Members Only #164 - Smooth Criminal

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* Che jumps on the third rail

* Unaliving all the bad words

* Throat c…

3 years, 4 months ago

#405 - "Death Train, White Fight, The Unfunniest Man in America"

* A homicide at Broadway-Lafayette

* Crazy strangers on a train

* The dumb racialization of a tragic death

* The “delightful” and violent Michael Jack…

3 years, 5 months ago

Members Only #163 - Danny Aiello, Black Hockey, and Ugly MMA

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* Moynihan on Maher

* Los Angeles is a weird place

* Kmele in Chicago w…

3 years, 5 months ago

Members Only #162 - Jon Ronson on Neo-Nazi Debutantes, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and "Platforming" Alex Jones

He first came on to talk about a suicide in the porn industry. Then he came back to help us explore the origins of our roiling culture wars. And now …

3 years, 5 months ago